12 Things That You Can Do That Are Guaranteed To Annoy Logical Peoplehttp://www.businessinsider.com/ways-to-annoy-logical-people-2013-7/comments
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"#6 Draw conclusions from personal anecdotes"...that's the one I see used on the web (and among those prone to donate to/buy politicians) the most.
E.g., "I saw somebody using food stamps to buy steaks - therefore all food stamp recipients are both over-funded and unethical."
Or "America can't have a poverty problem or I wouldn't see obese people on the train."
Or "'High finance' has been making me a lot of money - therefore we should follow the advice of the big players and deregulate anything and everything as 'competition' and 'the free market' will ensure that my experience to date is universal...even if the net worth of your portfolio lacks six or more of the zeroes that you'll find in mine and so you can't access the markets' movers and shakers - the insider information - that I can."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d6eb986bb3f7ee2c000016dawgGoodieFri, 05 Jul 2013 11:51:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d6eb986bb3f7ee2c000016
#3 Hugely inflate and exaggerate their position
This is the Saul Alinsky trick Obama and Hillary are found of. If you are pro-traditional marriage (which Obama before it was politically advantageous), you want to send the US into a Shia - dominated legal environment where gay men are murdered.
LBJ was good at this. When running for a county position, he told his campaign manager that he was planning to accuse his opponent (a hog farmer) with having relations with his stock. When the campaign manager told Lyndon, "You can't do that!", LBJ said "I want to see him deny it."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d65271eab8ea343b00000cSuperbob222Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:58:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d65271eab8ea343b00000c
Split infinitives is not a grammar mistakehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d5f8c669bedd852b000009h_lanceThu, 04 Jul 2013 18:35:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d5f8c669bedd852b000009
It would be illogical to be annoyed by any of this.
Also, although correlation most certainly does not unequivocally demonstrate causation in every case, where there is causation there will be correlation. It is typically illogical or dishonest people who resort to the "correlation does not mean causation" line. In fact that line was made prominent by deniers of the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Although it is clearly true that a third, unseen variable may drive the relationship, more often, one who uses that particular line is trying to deny a clear causal relationship.
Furthermore, anecdotes are not always worthless. A well-documented, verifiable anecdote may be the source of further study. However, illogical or dishonest people often make unverifiable claims when arguing. Those claims are totally worthless. An example is the frequent lie that someone "saw someone use food stamps to buy lobster and filet mignon, followed her to the parking lot, and saw her drive away in the Mercedes" (details vary). Regardless of one's view of food stamps, this is an obvious lie. If it were verifiable, it might suggest that one individual somewhere is abusing the food stamp program, but it's always repeated in a vague, unverifiable way.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d5f4ed69bedd941c000012SallyThu, 04 Jul 2013 18:19:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d5f4ed69bedd941c000012
Writing mistakes are annoying, but not because they are illogical. I can rationalize that the person must be less educated, ignorant, or simply had a slip-up. It annoys me more when someone seems to be intellectually capable but still insists on making illogical arguments.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d59c6369bedd035f00000emartin.a.reinertThu, 04 Jul 2013 12:01:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d59c6369bedd035f00000e
So annoying that people write such an article. What's their point? Isn't there enought trouble and disagreement in the world already, that we need to sit down and be creative how to annoy even more people?
Seriously: find ways how to say things nicely to each other with a point but still with relationship same level or better. THAT would be an article worth reading!!!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d53b8f69beddc90c000016TonThu, 04 Jul 2013 05:08:31 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d53b8f69beddc90c000016
I love it when people pretend to be able to use the complete lack of evidence for X as insurmountable evidence for X. This actually happens. Reading psychoanalytic trauma theory, for instance, I came to realize that I must have been sexually abused as a child because I have absolutely no recollection of any such event. The fact that I have no memory of anything of the kind is proof positive that I have traumatically repressed it into my "unconscious" (yet another entity which, in psychoanalytic terms, proves itself by being impossible to prove).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d497d669bedd172d000001brandWed, 03 Jul 2013 17:29:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d497d669bedd172d000001
Wow, awesome. You wrote an entire guide to help idiots to troll reasonable people. On behalf of logical people, I would like to invite you to never write anything again, ever. I can only assume your helpful list is related to your other article that the BI server linked from this one: "11 Reasons To Ignore The Haters And Major In The Humanities".
Hooray for #5. I think your server just passed a Turing test. Yay humanities! =Phttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d4546a69bedd8e14000005DOODLEWed, 03 Jul 2013 12:42:18 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d4546a69bedd8e14000005
beating them over the head with over-advertising , being pushy. rich / wealthy - wether old or new money- din't get by being stupid- sooo a "mouse" chasing pate' down a duck's throat has no where to go- "the whales"- the throw-around/ easy/ stupid money doesn't really hang on the lower branches- once a liar- always a liar- smoke & mirrors are old gameshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d43a1a6bb3f71127000001doug smartassWed, 03 Jul 2013 10:50:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d43a1a6bb3f71127000001
Sounds like the liberals to me. They are the only ones claiming it's possible to create , via Goddess Science, children out of two men or two women. What a bunch of dumbasses : hey believe that humans are some sui generi species, not mammals which share 97% of their gene pool with chimpanzees.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3c0a169bedd9642000012Don HarderWed, 03 Jul 2013 02:11:45 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3c0a169bedd9642000012
In other words, be a proud, ignorant imbecile.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d39c84eab8eaa83d00000aNavarro12345Tue, 02 Jul 2013 23:37:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d39c84eab8eaa83d00000a
1-12 How to be a professional idiot.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d377cc69bedd6a13000010tom1295Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:01:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d377cc69bedd6a13000010
"This is a silly list - it's literally saying that people should just use logical fallacies while arguing in an attempt to annoy someone, rather than make a point." When I read the article, I pretty quickly came to the impression that it was not saying anything of the kind, but was a list submitted by the logical people about which arguments irritated them the most. If you saw it from that perspective, you would not need to be so upset.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d36ef96bb3f76411000001San GamgeeTue, 02 Jul 2013 20:23:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d36ef96bb3f76411000001
You forgot "Go around saying that split infinitives are poor grammer in English." Because they're not. That outdated rule comes from an overextension of Latin.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d35dfbeab8ea1336000002chrisfsTue, 02 Jul 2013 19:10:51 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d35dfbeab8ea1336000002
Why are you posting an article on how to be a worse troll ?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d351a169bedd3b4300000dMr. ObviousTue, 02 Jul 2013 18:18:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d351a169bedd3b4300000d
This is a silly list - it's literally saying that people should just use logical fallacies while arguing in an attempt to annoy someone, rather than make a point. #3 is encouraging a slippery slope style of argument, #6 is a selection bias issue, and #9 is boldly stupid, since it misplaces the burden of proof on the person hearing the claim to disprove it, instead of where it should be (on the person making the claim to prove it). #9 is notably a favorite of organized religions.
When people pull this garbage on me, I usually just make a mental note that they're not that smart and that I should go out of my way to remove sharp objects, hot things, and other potentially dangerous items from their reach, as they may inadvertently harm themselves or others.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d33d47eab8eae672000002A Random GermanTue, 02 Jul 2013 16:51:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d33d47eab8eae672000002
No, he shot himself while trying. It was very hard for him to prove that. Being gay was just the excuse the historian added to the picture to aid his historical position.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d33bcb69bedd5a15000001nwoTue, 02 Jul 2013 16:44:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d33bcb69bedd5a15000001
Sounds like a liberal democrat to me.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d33a13eab8eaa66b000007nothing to do with right or wrong -- or leftTue, 02 Jul 2013 16:37:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d33a13eab8eaa66b000007
all these quasi nazi religions from both extremes and the center do exactly the same kind of mind numbing aggrandizing propaganda to their subjects/members/ potential recruits, including all the armed forces in the world and their opponents of the suicidal type
no other way to continue to control of the masses by the overlords
get used to ithttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d335b8ecad04b617000001PoohratTue, 02 Jul 2013 16:19:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d335b8ecad04b617000001
This sounds like the playbook for any Democrat trying to "prove" their point in an argument. Basically this is the Democrat and liberal medias playbook when it comes to conversation in general.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3328069beddeb7b00000dThePeteTue, 02 Jul 2013 16:05:20 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3328069beddeb7b00000d
Didn't Turing prove this decades ago?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d329866bb3f72d0e000003thelimitsofplausibilityTue, 02 Jul 2013 15:27:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d329866bb3f72d0e000003
This sort of thing is about all Quora is good for.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3274669bedd666100000bDiddly CarsonTue, 02 Jul 2013 15:17:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3274669bedd666100000b
They don't work for me, I don't know any logical people, but probably they would work on all the others.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3221d6bb3f79778000029Darl BundrenTue, 02 Jul 2013 14:55:25 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d3221d6bb3f79778000029
Akin to # 4, at any stage quote something that lends nothing to the argument but is difficult in its own right to decipher. For example, if arguing about gay marriage quip 'There is no royal road to geometry!' then give 'em the ol' Buckley wink/grin.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d32151ecad04c869000012cmonsterTue, 02 Jul 2013 14:52:01 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d32151ecad04c869000012
Liberalism?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d31dfd6bb3f71e74000008bdbrTue, 02 Jul 2013 14:37:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d31dfd6bb3f71e74000008
Bingo! I was going to post the same comment.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d31df469bedd884a00000atroobleTue, 02 Jul 2013 14:37:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d31df469bedd884a00000a
Failure to see causes, but also seeing causes that aren't there. Explaining something in the wrong way is worse than not explaining at all.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d314e46bb3f7f566000002YesTue, 02 Jul 2013 13:59:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d314e46bb3f7f566000002
Nice example of number 3http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d313d06bb3f78d6200000fMark SwansonTue, 02 Jul 2013 13:54:24 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d313d06bb3f78d6200000f
Or How to Anger Anyone with Asperger's Syndrome ... you neurotypicals are all the same.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30e75eab8ea771100000eHmmTue, 02 Jul 2013 13:31:33 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30e75eab8ea771100000e
Sounds like the far right to me. They're the ones claiming some deity made the universe 6,000 years ago. What a bunch of dumbasses. Talk about illogical! They have no ability for logic and reason - NONE whatsoever.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30e6becad04f448000009jacknTue, 02 Jul 2013 13:31:23 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30e6becad04f448000009
Also a guide to writing for BI.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30df6ecad04eb4a00000fnotime4foolsTue, 02 Jul 2013 13:29:26 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30df6ecad04eb4a00000f
Wow! Sounds like a large percentage of the regular BI commenters (present company excluded, of course)!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30dd169bedd7226000009Nothing to be proud ofTue, 02 Jul 2013 13:28:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d30dd169bedd7226000009
Anyone proud to "irritate" logical people either suffer some sort of psychological imbalance, are fools, or have an element of weakness in their opinion or belief which makes behaving like a 10yr old their only recourse. Pretty much sums up the entire body of the American left.